Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Mccoy Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 43.18491, -111.10031
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 40067 (Mccoy Creek Cg), 100 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 40067 (Mccoy Creek Cg), 100 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 40067 (Mccoy Creek Cg): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Mccoy Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,619 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mccoy CreekNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- LLaundry4 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- OOutfitter4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- RxPharmacy4 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- DDump19 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- WWater27 mi
- AAir-up28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 27-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Mccoy Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,619 ft
Ground slope
28.6% · steep
State
ID
Coordinates
43.18491, -111.10031
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePalisades Reservoir · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townAlpine Northwest · ~3.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~4.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~19.1 mi
- GroceriesChevron · ~4.3 mi
- PharmacyBroulim's Pharmacy · ~4.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicStar Valley Health Alpine Clinic · ~4.2 mi
- HardwareJenkins Building Supply · ~4.3 mi
EV charging — from Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.6 mi straight-line NE — Jackson, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 33 within 100 · 79 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS26.4 mi — TOWN OF JACKSON GARAGE DC #1, Jackson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.4 mi — TOWN OF JACKSON GARAGE DC #1, Jackson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.2 mi — SYLVAN LODGE #1 SYLVAN LODGE #2, Hoback, WY · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 122279 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMccoy Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAlpine Campground & Group Area · ~3.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAlpine Boat Ramp · ~4.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletIndian Creek Boat Access · ~4.5 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Mccoy Creek · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Palisades Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 28.6% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Mccoy Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Mccoy Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Alpine Campground & Group Area~3.1 mi · fee
- Blowout Campground~7.0 mi
- Little Cottonwood Group Campground~8.2 mi · fee
- Big Elk Creek Campground~9.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Mccoy Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mccoy Creek are set by Caribou-Targhee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Mccoy Creek
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-26: $15 for a single site, $30 for a double. After the season the campground is open first-come/first-served with no fee, no toilets and no water -- a seasonal condition, not a free campground, so this stays flagged as a fee site; it is inside the paid window today. No recreation.gov listing. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/caribou-targhee/recreation/mccoy-creek-campground (page last updated June 30, 2026).
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Mccoy Creek
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Mccoy Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →